TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of May 17, 2019

1.A Palomino is (5 points)

• a good friend
• a kind of music
• a token in a board game
• a kind of horse
• a missing number

2.Which pair is incorrect? (5 points)

• Jefferson - nickel
• Lincoln - $5 bill
• Hamilton - Quarter
• Roosevelt - dime
• Lincoln - penny

3.Which of the following is a shade of a secondary color? (10 points)

• Butter
• Sky
• Ebony
• Cranberry
• Lime

4.What lasting "impression" is affected by your teenage friends' posts on Facebook? (20 points)

• Stamp of approval
• Carbon footprint
• Digital footprint
• Hand stamp
• Credit record

5.A port is most likely to have which pair of industries? (10 points)

• electronics and packaging
• farming and skiing
• shipping and fishing
• fishing and mining
• furniture building and oil refining

6.Which does not belong? (20 points)

• Wilbur
• Kitty Hawk
• 1905
• dune
• biplane

7.What number comes next in the following sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 (10 points)

• 21
• 27
• 144
• 36
• 45

8.The North Star is part of this constellation (5 points)

• The Little Dipper
• The Big Dipper
• The Bear
• Orion
• Cassiopeia

9.An ocean reef is made up of: (5 points)

• garbage
• underwater mountains
• piles of rocks
• large colonies of living coral
• decayed plants and other organisms

10.Settlers on the American prairie sometimes made houses out of this: (10 points)

• Sod
• Cement
• Brick
• Stone
• Redwood

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